Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 19

• 1859: birth of Hippolyte Delehaye, hagiographer, president of the Bollandists between 1912 and 1941
• 1877: opening of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, containing the workshops of the sixteenth century publisher Christoffel Plantijn, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• 1900: birth of Jean-Baptiste Accolay, composer
• 1978: birth of Walter Baseggio, footballer